Blonde Designs is an inspirational blog focused on invitations, parties, and good design. We are Angie Gubler and Kristin Rees, best friends, graphic designers and moms. We are both former art directors at Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings, respectively. We own Blonde Designs, an invitation and stationery company.

I love this alphabet/flashcard-themed 1st birthday party that one of our readers, Leigh, was kind enough to share with us. The theme of the invitation was "A is for Alex" and Leigh had her brother-in-law create a line drawing of her son from a photo.

The invitations were printed on heavy cardstock, front and back and then the corners were rounded like a flashcard. Brilliant!

Leigh continued the alphabet theme with an "ABC chandelier...."

...a flashcard banner....

...flashcard food labels (I absolutely love these)....

...and, finally, water bottle labels.

Favor bags were filled with M&M's and sealed with a label reading "This party was brought to you by the letter Mm." Darling!